Really TRUE odd factoids

[T4tomo]

Sorry, I don't see how this relates to guineas?

Don't go on the 1% club then,if you really can spot the similarity between

£1, 1 shilling and 1d

and

3 months, 3 weeks and 3 days

I'll be back alter with a clue

 

[PeteXXX]

Otis Reading never heard the water sloshing on the dock of the bay as it was added after he died.

 

[kynikos]

Otis Redding's (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay was the first posthumous #1 single in the US of A.

 

[kynikos]

...and "Me and Bobby McGee" by Janis Joplin was the second.

Happy days (musically speaking).

 

[Chris S]

Don't go on the 1% club then,if you really can spot the similarity between

£1, 1 shilling and 1d

and

3 months, 3 weeks and 3 days

I'll be back alter with a clue

A guinea was just £1 pound and 1 shilling.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_(coin)

 

[raleighnut]

...and "Me and Bobby McGee" by Janis Joplin was the second.

Happy days (musically speaking).

Surely Buddy Holly had singles out after he tragically died but did they not get to number one ?

 

[kynikos]

Surely Buddy Holly had singles out after he tragically died but did they not get to number one ?

IIRC in the UK Holly had the first posthumous # 1 but not oddly in the US.

 

[classic33]

Britans longest train journey from Aberdeen in Aberdeenshire, Scotland to Penzance in Cornwall, England is approximately 6563636.363636 bananas long.

 

[Beebo]

Britans longest train journey from Aberdeen in Aberdeenshire, Scotland to Penzance in Cornwall, England is approximately 6563636.363636 bananas long.

Approximately?

Surely it depends on what you regard as the standard length of a banana.

 

[PeteXXX]

Selling pigeon seed in Trafalgar Square was made illegal in 2003 by Mayor Ken Livingston. 🕊️

 

[Beebo]

Selling pigeon seed in Trafalgar Square was made illegal in 2003 by Mayor Ken Livingston. 🕊️

And it’s a much nicer place for that.

 

[markemark]

...rats with wings.

 

[DaveReading]

Selling pigeon seed in Trafalgar Square was made illegal in 2003 by Mayor Ken Livingston. 🕊️

It was tuppence a bag, I seem to recall.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Otis Reading never heard the water sloshing on the dock of the bay as it was added after he died.

He'd have been very wet if he was sat on the dock, as that's the wet bit. I guess sitting on the wharf didn't scan as well.

 

[PeteXXX]

It was tuppence a bag, I seem to recall.

That's my memory, too, when my sister & I went into London from Eltham Park railway station for a day out in the summer school holidays with mum & dad.

BTW Eltham Park Station doesn't exist anymore.